Cheyenne Publishing Published Quality LGBT Novels and Anthologies

Cheyenne Publishing published quality LGBT novels and anthologies, specializing in historical fiction.
This was its website for a number of years.
Content is from the site's archived 2009-2013 pages.

Cheyenne Publishing is an independent publisher of quality LGBT novels and anthologies, specializing in historical fiction. Our adult fiction is culled from the best writers in gay historical fiction today including Alex Beecroft, Erastes, and Lee Rowan.

We also take special pride in our young adult line that can readily be recommended to gay teens.

Cheyenne Publishing was founded in 2007 by Mark R. Probst, and has only recently expanded into a small press with a creative team of authors.

Our objective is to nurture LGBT historical fiction into becoming the new wave of LGBT fiction.

Romance

Historical

Adult

Mystery

Young Adult

Our Authors

P. A. Brown
Biography

Author P. A. (Pat) Brown was born in Western Canada, and has lived in Southern California, Hawaii, and Bermuda, before returning to Canada a few years ago. She considers herself a writer but has worked at a little bit of everything, including housekeeper, hospital porter, horse groomer, barmaid, and her current non-writing job, technical administrator. She has even been an extra in a Hollywood movie and a census taker for the US government.

After a stint of writing screenplays, Pat and went back to her real love: novels. She began with Science Fiction and eventually switched to mysteries. Pat wrote her first book at 17, and her first book was published at age 48, proving that the tortoise does sometimes does win.

Ensan CaseBiography
After college and a two-year hitch in the Navy, Ensan Case tried his hand at writing fiction in the late 1970's.
His novel "Wingmen" was published by Avon Books in 1979. Success eluded him and he turned to other pursuits. Thirty-two years later, he discovered via the Internet that Wingmen was alive and well, with new demand for used copies. He has since recovered all rights to the work, and contracted with Cheyenne Publishing to re-release the book in paper and ebook formats.
Now that he has retired, and has time on his hands, he is reconsidering making the plunge back into the business of writing.

Charlie CochraneBiography
Charlie Cochrane writes gay fiction, predominantly historical romances/mysteries, but with an increasing number of forays into the modern day. She's even been known to write about gay werewolves — highly respectable ones.
Her ideal day would be a morning walking along a beach, an afternoon spent watching rugby, and a church service in the evening, with her husband and daughters tagging along, naturally. She loves reading, theatre, good food and watching sport.
Charlie was named Author of the Year 2009 by the review site Speak Its Name.

Titles for Cheyenne PublishingAftermath (a novella included in Speak Its Name: A Trilogy)Home Fires Burning

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Erastes

Biography

Erastes has been writing since 2003, and has had two novels, three novellas and over 20 short stories published, which have appeared in anthologies by Alyson Books, Cleis Press, STARbooks and many others. She specialises in gay historical fiction and works hard to bring attention to the genre. She owns Speak Its Name, the only review site to concentrate on gay historical fiction and is a member of The Macaronis, a group of like-minded authors. Her second novel, Transgressions, was one of the flagship releases by Running Press in their M/M Historical Romance line which is being marketed directly at the existing romance market.

She's also the Director of the Erotic Authors Association, and lives on the Norfolk Broads in England. She is drawing on the landscape of the local area for her next novel, a Victorian Gothic mystery, Mere Mortals.

Contact

Website & Blog: erastes.com

Titles for Cheyenne Publishing

Frost Fair

Hard and Fast (a novella included in Speak Its Name: A Trilogy)

Junction X

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Erik Orrantia

Biography

Born in San Francisco in 1970, Erik Orrantia lived in the San Francisco Bay area until 1997. By that time, he had earned a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Counseling at California State University in Hayward. His original intention was to build a practice in Psychotherapy.

He then felt a calling to explore the world and entered an International Study Program in Mexico City where he earned a teaching credential. He works as a middle school teacher in San Diego County near the Mexican-American border.

He has traveled extensively throughout Mexico. He now spends most of his time in Tijuana with his partner and dedicates his free time to writing.

Contact

e-Mail: captaineo70@yahoo.com

Facebook: facebook.com/erikorrantia

Titles for Cheyenne Publishing

Normal Miguel

Taxi Rojo

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Mark R. Probst

Biography

Mark R. Probst lives in Washington State, works in the computer industry, and writes in his spare time. He is an avid movie buff, and has a special admiration for the western films of the classic era. He’s had a life-long interest in writing but didn’t become published until 2007.

His favorite novels are The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Maurice, and Gone with the Wind.

He started up Cheyenne Publishing with the dream of bringing gay-themed historical fiction into the limelight. He has several writing projects in development.

Contact

Blog: markprobst.livejournal.com

Titles for Cheyenne Publishing

The Filly

Not To Reason Why

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Lee Rowan

Biography

Lee Rowan has been writing since childhood, but professionally only since spring of 2006, with the publication of her Eppie-winning novel, Ransom. She is a lady of a certain age, old enough to know better but young enough to do it anyway. A confirmed bookaholic with a wife of many years, she is kept in line by a cadre of cats and a dog who gets her away from the computer and out of the house at least once a day.

Contact

Website: www.lee-rowan.net

Titles for Cheyenne Publishing

Ransom

Winds of Change

Eye of the Storm

Walking Wounded

Gentleman's Gentleman (a novella included in Speak Its Name: A Trilogy)

Home is the Sailor

Sail Away

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Ruth Sims

Biography

Ruth Sims has lived her entire life in conservative, Republican, tiny-town Midwest USA surrounded by corn, wheat, and soybean fields. It's a strange place indeed for a Liberal Democrat to have sprouted. Like Emily Dickenson she's never seen a moor and never seen the sea but she's seen plenty of silos, Amish buggies, whitetails, and amber waves of grain. She'll battle anybody who says the flat, fertile land of the Midwest doesn't have its own kind of beauty.

Though many years past schooldays, her education is continuous and far-ranging, with interests ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, from Shakespeare to groan-inducing puns and limericks. Her library has many shelves of history, biography, drama, and reference books. Her special love of drama is apparent in The Phoenix, and her passion for Classical and Romantic music comes to life in Counterpoint: Dylan's Story.

Words, imagination, books, music, and writing have always been the means by which she could slip into more exciting lives than her own. When the chance finally came for her to write full-time, she was able to focus on the stories that have been in her head for years. Her many characters are thankful to escape; it was getting crowded in there.

Contact

Blog: ruth-sims.livejournal.com

Website: www.ruthsims.com

Titles for Cheyenne Publishing

Pride Pack 1 : Who Framed Lorenzo Garcia?

Pride Pack 2 : The Case Of The Missing Mother

Pride Pack 3 : The Quarterback's Secret

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Jordan Taylor

Biography

Jordan Taylor lives in the Pacific Northwest with several pets; dividing time between training dogs, collecting canine movie memorabilia, reading classic and modern literature and writing.

Contact

Website: www.jordantaylorbooks.com

Titles for Cheyenne Publishing

Shattered Diamonds (a novella included in Awake)

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Hayden Thorne

Biography

Hayden Thorne has lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area though she wasn't born there (or, indeed, the USA). She's married with no kids and three cats, is a cycling nut (go Team Garmin!), and her day job involves artwork, crazy (read: incomprehensibly fun) coworkers who specialize in all kinds of media, and the occasional strange customer requests involving papier mache fish with sparkly scales.

She's a writer of young adult fiction, specializing in contemporary fantasy, historical fantasy, and historical genres. Her books range from a superhero fantasy series to reworked folktales to Victorian ghost fiction. Her themes are coming-of-age, with very little focus on romance (most of the time) and more on individual growth with some adventure thrown in.

Contact

Blog: www.haydenthorne.net

Titles for Cheyenne Publishing

The Glass Minstrel

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K.C. Warwick

Biography

K.C. Warwick lives in the heart of England, amidst countryside reputed to have inspired both Shakespeare and Tolkien. It's therefore not surprising that she writes history and fantasy, sometimes even combining the two! She has been writing since she could hold a pencil, but finds it considerably easier now that computers have been invented. Although she likes to think of herself as a writer, she also runs a business, looks after horses, and edits a quarterly magazine.

Contact

Blog: kcwarwick.livejournal.com

Website: kcwarwick.weebly.com

Titles for Cheyenne Publishing

Prove a Villain

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Jon Wilson

Biography

Jon Wilson is an author with varied interests: historical fiction, fantasy and even the occasional murder-mystery. Likewise, he’s dabbled in assorted careers — from fast food server to professional wrestler (with male model, construction-contract specialist and lots and lots of retail thrown in the middle).

Something of a nomad, he’s lived in several states and a few foreign countries. He currently resides and works in Northern California.

Contact

Blog: jonwilsonauthor.blogspot.com

Titles for Cheyenne Publishing

A Hundred Little Lies

A Shiny Tin Star

Submission Calls

Cheyenne Publishing currently has no calls for submissions.

If you have a submission you would like us to consider, please email a query letter to us at webmaster@cheyennepublishing.com. Please do not send us unsolicited manuscripts.

Some helpful hints regarding queries:

What we are looking for (in other words, what will be given higher consideration):

• Alternate history, fantasy or anything that is not a fairly accurate representation of real life in the past.
• Stories about societies, such as Ancient Greece, where homosexuality was considered the norm.
• Erotica — The story can be sexually explicit, as may be intregral to the plot, but we don't want stories where eroticism is the main focus.

A few more things we'd like you to know:

• We prefer full novellas and novels with a word count between 50,000 and 80,000. There are exceptions for longer novels, but this is very rare.
• We do not accept queries for books that have been self-published, that are currently in print, or have been published online. This includes anything that has had more than 50% of the content posted online.
• Our books are distributed via POD (print-on-demand) through Ingram Book Company as well as a few independent distributors including Hotnote Books.